Before Christ’s advent, he was neither expected nor desired by the Gentile nations. The LXX and older translations render the phrase ‘the choice things of all nations’. The Hebrew verb is plural and requires a plural subject. The ‘silver’ and ‘gold’ of verse 8 have little to do with the coming of the Messiah. It offers no encouragement to the people to be told that an individual is coming for whom the Gentiles have been longing. And the Gospel writers do not quote this verse in connection with Christ’s
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